Robert "Bo" Goldman was born on September 10,1932 and is an American screenwriter and playwright.
20 Facts About Bo Goldman
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Bo Goldman has received two Academy Awards for his screenplays of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Melvin and Howard.
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Bo Goldman was born into a Jewish family in New York City, the son of Lillian, a hat model, and Julian Bo Goldman.
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Bo Goldman's father was a Broadway producer, and owned a chain of well known eastern department stores called The Bo Goldman Stores, and as an early pioneer of "time payments", his business thrived.
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Julian Bo Goldman became an early backer, and it was this school where Bo would begin his education.
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Bo Goldman followed this by skipping his last year at Dalton in favor of fast tracking through Phillips Exeter Academy, an experience that informed a script he would write years later, Scent of a Woman.
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Bo Goldman is not related to William Bo Goldman, another two-time-Oscar-winning screenwriter who won the Academy Award for All the President's Men the year after Bo won for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
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Bo Goldman attended Princeton University where he wrote, produced, composed lyrics and was president of the famed Princeton Triangle Club, a proving ground for F Scott Fitzgerald, James Stewart and director Joshua Logan.
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Bo Goldman would spend the next few years unsuccessfully trying to get his second show, Hurrah Boys Hurrah, produced.
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Bo Goldman went on to himself produce and write for public television on the award-winning NET Playhouse.
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The script became Bo Goldman's calling card, and he would soon be "known for some of the best screenplays of the 1970s and 80s".
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Bo Goldman next wrote The Rose, which was nominated for four Academy Awards.
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Bo Goldman's calling card, Shoot the Moon, was then filmed by Alan Parker and starred Diane Keaton and Albert Finney.
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Bo Goldman followed this with Scent of a Woman receiving his second Golden Globe Award and third Academy Award nomination.
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Bo Goldman's screenplay provides him with a string of indelible wisecracks.
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In 2000, Bo Goldman did a page one uncredited rewrite of The Perfect Storm.
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In recent years, Bo Goldman was rumored to be working on an adaptation of Jules Dassin's Du rififi chez les hommes for Al Pacino.
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Bo Goldman has the most varied and intelligent credits, from Cuckoo's Nest to Shoot the Moon, the best divorce movie ever made, to Scent of a Woman, to the great satire Melvin and Howard.
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Bo Goldman rarely makes mistakes, and he manages to maintain a distinctive American voice.
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Bo Goldman's words were silk, never wasted or misplaced, and he would throw away what others would consider glorious and did it all without a moment's fanfare.